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more or less curving upwards at the base, and then ascending, iisually 

 twice as long as the leaves. Spike }, to -^ incli long, commonly with 

 3 spikelets about } inch long. Fruit about f inch long, the beak 

 being very slightly deflexed. 



Linnajus appears to have confounded C. lagopina with the very 

 dissimilar C. ovalis, Good, and to have united them under the name 

 of C. leporina, the C. leporina of his " Flora Lapponica " being C. 

 lagopina, and that of his " Flora Sueccica " being C. ovalis. It is 

 therefore better to reject as ambiguous the name leporina, which some 

 authors apply to one and some to the other of these two species. 



Hare's-foot Sedge. 



Group K.— CANESCENTES. 



Rootstock caespitose. Spike only slightly interrupted. Bracts 

 minute, not foliaceous, rarely even setaceous. Spikelets whitish or 

 yellowish, male at the base, female at the apex. Fruit ascending or 

 erect, sessile, with an extremely short bidentate beak, not winged. 

 Stigmas 2. 



SPECIES XXI.— CAR EX CURT A. Good. 

 Plates MDCXXXI. MDCXXXII. 



Rootstock veiy densely ca'-spitose, without stolons. Stems ascend- 

 ing or erect, rather slender, stiif, triquetrous, rough immediately under 

 the spike. Leaves neai-ly as long as the stem, or shorter, erect, 

 linear, flat, rough on the margins, pale glaucous green. Spike short 

 or rather short, compound, slightly interi'upted below, without a 

 foliaceous bract at the base, or with a short one not exceeding the 

 lowest spikelet. Spikelets 4 to 8, oval- or roundish-ovoid, simple, all 

 male at the base, with scarious bracts, the lowest bract alone with 

 a short setaceous point. Glumes of the female flowers ovate, acute or 

 mucronate, greenish-white or pale yellowish-brown, with a green mid- 

 rib and broad white scarious margins, a little shorter than the fruit. 

 Fruit whitish, or very pale olive, erect, ovate, plano-convex, rounded at 

 the base, very faintly ribbed, rather abruptly acuminated into an ex- 

 tremely short slightly rough-edged bifid beak. Stigmas 2. Nut pale 

 yellowish, oval, obtuse at each end, plano-convex. 



